Scumbags Altering Pokemon Artist Signatures - ultimatepokeflute AKA Brandon Varela & Rob Diven

[@Alex-zv3uc]

Initially I was thinking "eh that's in bad taste but if you wanna waste your own money avoiding personalized signatures that's pathetic but whatever" but oh my god you think it can't get any worse then it just gets EVEN WORSE over and OVER again.. :l

[@poketrainerjuju]

So I attended the regional championships in Baltimore where kaitou was doing signatures. It was a mess, I’m sure you’ve heard a bit about it. Basically, no one who competed were able to get signatures because we played from 9 am-9 pm Saturday and on Sunday the clowns lined up at 1:30 am. We had no chance. Anyway, the event organizers are separate from Pokémon itself. The only representation from Pokémon were the judges, who by the way, are fantastic and kind and I can’t speak highly enough about them (they’re so passionate) anyway, they noticed the issue with the signatures. They mentioned that it was strange that over 500 people bought spectator passes to a regionals championship, because it was unusually high. ANYWAYS, they encouraged us to contact the Pokémon company about the situation and myself and other friends who play the TCG did and we got the reply that they are looking into it and the event organizers. Hopefully, stuff like that won’t happen as much.

[@michaelkrynski7793]

I stand by & support Rattle Pokemon! :)

[@crazyrabbits]

Unfortunately, the Pokemon sig collecting community is just now beginning to dabble in trends that have plagued sports card collecting for decades. I've stopped counting the number of instances of collectibles that I've seen online (and been told about in-person) that have been deliberately altered to remove personalization. There's no regulation for it and no real way to stop it, particularly because collectors gravitate to altering the high-end signatures (i.e. removing the personalization off a Gretzky sig, for instance). I have an item that I bought last year that was signed by Pink Floyd's frontman, David Gilmour, and his wife, Polly Samson, who wrote a book (unrelated to Floyd) and offered dual-signed tie-in CDs with music inspired by the book for offer. I was told after the fact that collectors were buying up 8-10 copies each and using dry erase/rubbing alcohol to remove Samson's name from the CD booklet (where both of them were signed) in order to make it look like only Gilmour signed the CD, with the belief that this would make the booklet "more valuable". This is despite the fact that Samson wrote music for the last four Pink Floyd albums and won awards for her work. (And yes, PSA was well-aware of the scam, as they authenticated several of these altered booklets.) So long as collectors exist, there will always be a subversive element that will always utilize every angle to maximize their value, regardless of the ethics or legality of the matter. The best we can do as a community is call it out when we see it and shame those dabbling in it.

[@theothersongsonthealbum2598]

i hate youtubers, but i love this rattle guy

[@el676]

I will ever understand why people share their personal life, especially online and especially when it’s controversial. Literally this guy wiping signatures could have done it, made money AND avoided all this scrutiny by just keeping things to yourself. Something so easy to do. Not everything needs to be broadcasted. If I ever did this, I sure as hell wouldn’t post it on social media and make videos about it. Live your life the way you want, according to your values, be kind to others and keep it to yourself. Happiness.

[@suprememorphgods3635]

This was amazing love the narration 😂

[@OpossumBud]

Dude I’ve never been more glad I slammed someone in my life, ultimatepokeflute Jesus Christ man 😐

[@OpossumBud]

Good vid and research as usual man 👍🏽

[@michaelkrynski7793]

🙏

[@shermhart7617]

Love the impression of him, spot on 😂😂

[@jjcardmen]

Really hope PSA stops grading cards from this event, but doubt it'll happen Edit: at least from this event that lack personalization

[@poketrainerjuju]

That would be great.

[@joeybebop]

The pacing in a hallway saying he doesn't care what we think is peak cringe lol

[@deathbymazda]

I’m gonna change my legal name to My Biggest Fan and make millions. 😂🤣

[@AlbinoManateeNation]

Wow!! This insane!! Especially to see some many Komiyas altered 😢

[@AlbinoManateeNation]

WOWW THEY WERE SCAMMING KOMIYA HIMSELF!!!😡😡😡😡

[@AlbinoManateeNation]

20:07 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ashdragneel8978]

hey rattle pokemon could you make a video about the stolen silver tempest packs being ripped on twitch a few days back

[@crazybillshobbiesandstuffd7652]

Thank you for the info. Can’t stand scummy people. I would love a personalized auto card and my grandsons would also.

[@scrappypat5612]

and please tell me you are the pokemon investigator that called him about his opening of silver tempest 3 pack blisters

[@pharaohsenpai7548]

Is this not the exact same video u posted 2 days ago?? 🤔

[@RattlePokemon]

Yes, it's a segment from the Friday premiere. Always upload them separately on Saturday and Sunday in case people want to only watch specific parts. ;)

[@DivaMsDivine]

I actually saw this on instagram a couple of weeks ago where an account I follow pokellector_cards questions whether or not the sketch had smudged? And ultimatepokeflute has responded that that sadly it did. So pokellector asked if it was from him removing the personal tag or when he signed it? Ultimatepokeflute said it was when it was placed in the sleeve so it was a no brainer to remove the personalisation Tbh. Pokellector replies with ahhhh I see. He has limited comments on this post so you can no longer comment and a comment I made 2 weeks ago was removed not before he told me I was mistaken for thinking he would remove a name to make money off a card. Seriously in the last few weeks alone some card collectors, KZbinrs and ebay sellers have seriously started to ruin the Pokémon community with stealing, lying and taking advantage of the community. 😞

[@Hamza-si1nf]

The lol dolls, I mean lol boys

[@TONGSAMCAN]

well if u combine hobby and a full time job in 1 life.. u know things are going to get dirty for like most of the time 🤣 and u gonna be the villain in the hobby

[@bendavis798]

interesting stuff 🤘

[@stephyoungness7124]

Rattle the pokemon community’s Robin Hood or some shit 👌🏼🔥🔥

[@DevineDeparture1]

ANNERISM

[@thecasualcanuck4590]

love your videos rattle, and all the work you do for the community, especially sticking to the scammers. but come on man, that military comment was out of order. I'm an avid collector, I always buy, rarely sell, mostly trade if I need to. I'm an Canadian vet with 2 tours to afghan, and its just kind of gross hearing a generalization like that. but I still love your content man, and will still be here to say fuck you to the carabooners

[@kamb8s]

The only time I've ever been scammed was by ex-military :o

[@thecasualcanuck4590]

@@kamb8s whoever that was doesn't speak for all of us. I'm sorry that happened to you, no one deserves to be scammed, but a lot of us put a lot on the line, and it's not fair to be seen as scammers or labeled as such. I hope whoever scammed you got bit in the ass by karma though.

[@Candyman2020_]

As military I paid attention to when rattle made this comment, but he clearly says “why have multiple Pokémon scammers been ex military?” he does NOT say “why are ex military scammers?” There’s a difference. He is pointing out that there has been a pattern with the scammers.

[@thecasualcanuck4590]

@@Candyman2020_ it's the connection being made. Military, scammer. And as someone who served, I would assume you would take offense to people making the CAF look bad, not rattle, the people he's talking about. The fact that they scammed should be the point of contention, their career has zero bearings on it. Would it make sense to mention if a carpenter scammed someone? That's all I'm getting at here.

[@kamb8s]

@@thecasualcanuck4590 nobody implied everyone who is ex military is also a scammer. Just seems like a higher % of ex military end up being scammers. But it’s a slippery slope and unless someone is tallying every time someone is exposed as a scammer the conversation will lead nowhere.

[@tombystander]

Imagine being a kid and ur parents tell u ur going on a 4-5 day road trip only to sit in line for hours each day for something ur dad will sell on eBay. Boy what fun

[@MET7Games]

Who needs Alt Arts when you can have Alt Sigs

[@LightningN1NjA]

You gained a subscriber with this one. I completely agree with you!! How broke and unsuccessful are you that you feel like this is the best way to make extra money. Wayyy too much time and effort for an extra $2000-3000. Then for the card to say “to trainer, ash, collector or some other stupid nonsense”. The real collectors know when the Arita auto has been altered by the cert numbers! Newer cert with plain Arita sig and no personalization or date is huge red flag.

[@elswagmaster6992]

I'm speechless as to how ridiculous people can get, that's just depressing

[@zandgemporium]

Real tragedy is how many times they say “lol” in messages

[@JediMasterSquirtle]

As an avid star wars fan you would run into these guys and their "kids" at Star Wars Weekends all the time. It was the family of 4-5 that all had the same figure getting a non personalized autograph on card. Like why do you need so many? If the star was signing Personalized the dad would gripe. They would hound poor Mark Hamil if they saw him to sign their stuff, he eventually would sign but personalized it. Crazy world

[@the_gengar_master]

I agree that PSA shouldn't have allowed altered cards pass through their authentication process. This video does well at highlighting that, but while controversial I dont think Brandon really did anything wrong to bring his family to muel signatures besides exploit a situation for personal gain. Events need to be handled better. Might I suggest a lottery? Seems to me to be the most fair for everyone attending.

[@quinlancollectibles258]

As an actual Komiya collector its sad that a deceptive individual did this. Every card has a story and these cards are all tarnished by their greed and alterations and are now potentially worth less than an unsigned card. In the short term they make some sales off some people who probably don't know any better and they'll gloat it over all the "haters" while doing mental gymnastics jumping through a dozen hoops to try to justify their behavior.

[@bskitt87]

I’m a Komiya collector too and what I wouldn’t give to have one personalised signed card, let alone be on ‘speaking terms’ and have a unique sketch. It’s appalling that someone has the ability to do this to any illustrator, let alone one with a health condition.

[@manithecomiccollector6361]

Did these clowns sell them on whatnot? Apparently if a seller commits fraud they’ll lose there account on whatnot

[@RattlePokemon]

Seems one was razzled mcdazzled on there.

[@scrappypat5612]

you know everyone is waiting for your take on seismicshocktelevision knowing buying stolen cards on ebay and then gaslighting the whole situation acting like was some unexpecting victim who is now gonna ask for a refund thru ebay for god knows what reason

[@ayejones32]

Now I'm looking at one of my cards that is signed but from a different artist. I really hope it's real! 😱 I wanted to reach out to you but I couldn't find an email. Love the content. I've learned a few things. 🤘🤘

[@RattlePokemon]

Discord DMs or Twitter is best. Without the history/origin of the card, there is likely little I can tell you about it though.

[@ayejones32]

I have discord but have no idea how to navigate it. I also don't have Twitter. It's all good. It just got me thinking once I watched your video. Huge fan of your Channel! 🤘🤘🤘

[@RattlePokemon]

Play around with it and shouldn't take long to navigate.

[@poketrainerjuju]

🤭

[@KelvinTrading]

So basicly its PSA's problem they don't care its another part of the market that's getting optimized. Pokemon should stop with singing cards they don't need the problems or the small amount of money they can make with it.

[@RattlePokemon]

Pokemon doesn't make any money from it.

[@KelvinTrading]

@@RattlePokemon okey my bad I would think they ask money for it. Than its all on PSA to do something about it

[@aaronscott2278]

Some people just need to go to work and get to work seriously 🙄

[@WesUnite]

Wow, keep up the great investigative work. Scammers shouldn't be a part of this beautiful and kind community.

[@ma1tou]

Thanks for bringing this into light Rattle!

[@Zen-Champ]

Would people be able to report these to PSA and have the cert revoked? As you mentioned, it's stupidly easy to confirm whether or not a signed card should have personalization attached to it based on the date of the event alone.

[@Zen-Champ]

Okay just got further into the video and I guess they aren't doing anything about this, unfortunate

[@RattlePokemon]

They probably will.

[@bleedforme2596]

Because of this video I was able to buy one of the cards thank you!

[@shakool2kool]

Another rattle special, love the investigative vids also the impersonations are funny as fuck haha

[@bleedforme2596]

I had to come back and say i bought another card. If it wasnt for you id never have this unique experience thanks rattle ❤

[@ale.g.x.667]

Scammers be scammin... But sheeep be baaaahhhhhhing

[@papafrankgod5930]

It's great how your beard matches Brandon's

[@ferealz7891]

Poke people take stuff too seriously lol just dont pay for overpriced autograph cards and move on

[@AquaticGems]

It sounds like ultimatepokeflute is making a ton of money exploiting the system and altering cards. It is fraud in the end in my mind. The artists sign it like that for a reason. Im not saying he needs to be incarcerated but hes gonna ruin for everyone

[@1ivingdeadgr189]

Im suprised people still buy from psa i wouldnt feel like they dont care about quality anymore

[@pokebronxakaunclerico]

Thumbs up 👍 always a amazing video 🎉🎉🎉

[@kevinclear4007]

I still think the move would be to get them to sign it "to Timmy"

[@phl33p92]

Thank you rattle your my professor oak and officer Jenny all in one.

[@PatchsOhulahan]

Read this in 5 years… loose cards are worth more the graded cards.

[@alexandercavazos2732]

Everyone go report PokeDouche lol

[@N-B-MMA]

Cut the packs in half for clout! Haha

[@noladventureswiththekriste2096]

The music is back! yuusssss

[@greenmountainpokemon2112]

Great content bro

[@Pokemon_mentalhealth]

Shining that light on Scamming Dingleberries. #RESPECT

[@lindseyroetzel287]

Saitou did not require personalization at the 2019 Dallas event. Feel free to shoot me a PM and i can share photos of my cards as evidence. That one may never have had personalization.

[@JusZard]

This dude is proud of getting cards signed claiming he paid he dues lol what are his dues ? Sucking we weee . I feel bad for his kids I wonder what they are getting out of it ? That’s so lame poor kids

[@trapper-paul]

Very shady! Rattle out here saving us all from the scammers! 👍

[@LordIron]

Damn... Thanks for generalizing military… We are not all bad…

[@RattlePokemon]

Never said that. ;)

[@LordIron]

You ask, “Why do ex-military people often end up being the scum of collectibles, scammer whammers, 69… Please let me know..” Then follow it up with the statement, “It’s more than a trend at this point.” While your question doesn’t inherently generalize service members, the statement does. There is scum everywhere you look.. in every population, group, or community… The military is no different. Most service members serve with selfless purpose, dignity, and respect for the values our country was founded on. The segment regarding ex-military could have easily been, “I’m not sure if opossum knew this guy was ex-military… but that’s interesting.” Instead of generalizing a perceived behavior of an entire community based on your mere opinion. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[@nobodycares0257]

Lord Iron, plainly that’s because Rattle is just a Canadian guy named Mike who loves making negative content about other people because his toxic fan base loves it ,and that’s pretty much where he’s getting the most attention in his life. Little does he know(or maybe he does), his idiot subscribers were going to Pokeflutes Instagram bombarding his comment section with the most disgusting and vile comments, such as this,”…your children are pieces of shit but they can’t be shittier than their shitty father…”So he had to delete comments, because if I were him I wouldn’t want my family seeing any of those comments. All this over cardboard. Rattle,you obviously aren’t responsible for other peoples actions,but do know that this is the type of stuff you lead people to do. That is on your hands, and your responsibility to tell your audience to chill tf out. No matter what points you make,once you drag children in this,you become wrong no matter what the reason. It’s despicable . But you probably won’t care because this is what you do,you don’t care about anybody and most importantly children.

[@MidwestBoom]

It's because no one's smart is joining the military at this point anyone who is has no other options or you're just kidding yourself and saying it's for honor when we all know they're just involved in foreign wars for no reason but to make the elite rich there hasn't been A-war worth fightings since World War II

[@KingTheGermanShepherd]

@@LordIron I found the Karen who served in our U.S army

[@superarsenal009]

How were they able to remove the personalizations?

[@haydenfare7040]

Thank you for making this video

[@HobbyChamps]

Just wanna say, I don't even do Pokémon cards. Like almost at all. But I still watch all you're non-box/pack opening content. Just love the vibe. lol

[@KelvinTrading]

These type of things Ruin the vintage market and make the most money for the OG people they can ask even more of a premium for the real deal. And alot of people are stupid and buy things without knowing what they buy without much research. People should do things in silent and brag about it on a video that's stupid just make youre money and be quite.

[@RattlePokemon]

Not being into pokemon as long is no excuse for altering signatures.

[@Thrxxx]

I’m a frequent whatnot user and to a degree every single seller on there is a scammer,some more blatant then others, if anyone wants to know where the actual scalpers and price manipulators all hang out or flock to its whatnot, I’m still gonna buy pull games and auctions tho

[@killincards]

this is a masterpiece